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Utterly horrifying

• JoeAltmaier 3y ago
  Something a wag wrote when the Pope allowed the rhythm method of birth control: Now you couldn't use chemistry or physics for family planning, but math was ok. It was a joke, but it was also very true. Was a time folks assumed fairies planted children in women's stomachs. Nowadays we know better. Lots better: now we can control the process deliberately. To claim any particular advancement in this chain of understanding is an abomination or horrifying, is a terrible temptation to update that joke. I don't see how any human being is 'horrifying', but I fear there will be those that dehumanize some of us, and call them subhuman or make it a crime for them to be born. Resist this impulse!
  • norwalkbear 3y ago
    I reject your worldview 100% and the false equivalency between previous beliefs about childbirth and this. It's utterly horrifying because we've seen repeatedly how corporations abuse such things.
    • JoeAltmaier 3y ago
      "Such things". I've done a quick google and failed to find evidence of artificial humans created from scratch. Not sure where that was going, except as hyperbole. And it wasn't so much about childbirth as technology. Perhaps the point was hard for some to understand, so I'll elucidate. Reproduction is a biological process that can be understood at many levels. To understand and effect change at a new level is not horrifying, not evil, not even very surprising. It's just another step in knowledge and care for human beings.
      • norwalkbear 3y ago
        Missing the forest for trees. You are extremely naive and Short sighted.
• RivieraKid 3y ago
  ...that it's not progressing faster.